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Be My Valentine!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
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This show is a VALENTINES DAY variety music special featuring romantic Jazz, R&B & Blues classics. This will be a wonderful addition to your spec...

Bought by KREV-LP and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 50:54
  • Purchases: 2
From Farm to Fork: Cranberries
From: Marian Daniells
Caption: Organic cranberries in Ocranics' facility have been sorted and labeled prior to being packaged for delivery., Credit: Marian Daniells
(Holiday themed) I trace cranberries back from my fork to the farm where they originated.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 03:46
Soul Christmas!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: Soul Christmas (1968), Credit: Atco Records
SOUL CHRISTMAS! Here are some of the greatest Soul and R&B holiday winter classics ever recorded. Today on this show you will hear Christmas tunes...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, WHRV, KSLU, KRWG, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2011
  • Length: 55:39
  • Purchases: 57
Jingle Bell Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: Various Artists: Jingle Bell Jazz (1962), Credit: Columbia Records
Ho Ho Ho! Start out your holiday with fun Christmas Jazz Classics. They are all here in one solid hour. This musical holiday program includes: "Win...

Bought by WUFT, KTXK, High Plains Public Radio, WICR, WMOT and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 15
Record Bin Roulette-Yankee Doodle Dandies
From: John Kessler
Caption: Boom, Credit: Camera Slayer/ Flickr
We review our Top Ten patriotic songs, from Kate Smith to James Brown.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
The arrival of spring
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Old man winter seems to have the last say on the arrival of spring.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:34
Erin go Bragh (1 hr.)
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with this edition of Kaleidoscope. From Mose the Firefighter to terminology and Irish practices, here is a look at th...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 47:56
  • Purchases: 1
Erin go Bragh: St. Patrick's Day
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
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Dedicated to the late broadcaster, J.P. McCarthy—Detroit's #1 Irishman—here is a two-hour celebration for St. Patrick's Day. In song, poetry, and p...

Bought by KHEN-LP and KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:33:41
  • Purchases: 2
"Christmas Eve at the Mermaid" by David Dodge and Loyall McLaren
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
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Christmas Eve, 1597, in the favorite haunt of impecunious Elizabethan playwrights and actors, The Mermaid Tavern.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KUNM, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 19, 2010
  • Length: 41:01
  • Purchases: 3
I Remember Radio #7: Thanksgiving
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Jack Benny, Flamingo, 1958, Credit: Dan Perry
Great names and great memories—Thanksgiving with Stan Freberg, Jack Benny, and Eve Arden.

Bought by KMXT, KRCB 104.9, KMXT, and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 45:13
  • Purchases: 4
Thanksgiving
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Patterns in Music
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For “Patterns in Music,” Mike Whorf presents this special program of music, poetry, and thought-provoking reflection.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, 'The Sea', KKWE Niijii Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:07:36
  • Purchases: 4
Episode #56 Pretty Money
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
Caption: Sly Crooner of Swanktown
Sly has a heart rending conversation with a young mother who has chosen to live on the street and forego her son's help.

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Cartoon Carnival with Joe Bev.
Caption: Funny Tributes to George Washington and Abe Lincoln air on “The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special” Available February 15, 2010 holiday Broadcast., Credit: Joe Bevilacqua
The Cartoon Carnival Presidents Day Special - Noted fictional newsman Walter Cockeyed (Joe Bev.) offers up cartoon audio and comedy about George Wa...

Bought by WNMU-FM and KVMR


  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 54:06
  • Purchases: 2
Shopping
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3 generations discuss changing attitudes about shopping

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Has thank you lost its meaning?
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: Sook Yin Lee
We all say "thank you" a lot. We thank people for holding doors open for us. We thank the person who hands us our morning coffee. We thank the c...

Bought by WRNC-LP, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 9
David Bouchier Essay: Deep French
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David continues his linguistic and cultural education in France.

  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:41
How Coca Cola Became Kosher
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Rabbi Tobias Geffen
The story of how one rabbi got Coca Cola to become kosher

Bought by Prairie Public, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRCB 104.9, BSR Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 7
The Holidays
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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A Vox Pop about the holidays and Santa Claus.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 23, 2008
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
O Tannenbaum
From: Fitz Cahall
Caption: Snowflake, Credit: Walker Cahall
Christmas trees are a massive business. Americans spent $2.5 billion on Christmas in 2007. Outdoor writer, Fitz Cahall wasn’t among them.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:07
Sly Crooner One Hour Christmas Special
From: Geoffrey Tozer
Series: Sly Crooner
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A Damon Runyon Christmas story set to music.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KRPS, WNMU-FM, WDCV and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Story Behind the Grinch
From: Tina Antolini
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For decades, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" has been as much of a holiday fixture as eggnog and candy canes... Here's the story behind the Dr. Se...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Sep 24, 2008
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Ultimate Christmas Gift
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A classic Christmas sentiment

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
Yisrael Campbell, non-narrated feature
From: Deanna Neil
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of Yisrael Campbell's comedy

  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 06:21
Hiking in Australia
From: Jake Warga
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A travel writer gets lost in Australia's outback

Bought by The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating the Fourth with the Enemy
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's a most peculiuar experience, spending the Fourth of July in that Canadian territory settled by pro-British "Loyalists" who fled the U.S. afte...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, RadioFreePalmer, Marfa Public Radio, and KUNV


  • Added: Jun 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 4